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From: eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu (johan van Zanten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Chooser name question
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Date: 12 Jul 90 20:02:08 GMT
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In article <269BF792.4840@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>Only if you prevent people from booting up their own system disks.  With
>that caveat, you can edit the Chooser's DITL resource with ResEdit and
>change the type of the name field from "Edit Text" to "Static Text".
>Voila: it's read-only.
>
>--
>Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com>
>Programmer With Attitude
>InterCon Systems Corporation

	This does not work.  Someone suggested it about 3 or 4 months ago
and i tried it with 6.0.4 and it didn't work then, either. (I'm using 6.0.5)
	If i use ResEdit to edit ITEM #13 of DITL resource -15904 of the
 "System" file, i can change the ITEM from "editable" to "static" text, but the 
Chooser Name can still be changed, although there is no box around the name
in the altered window.  When i did this before, i noticed that the Chooser
that had been modified would sometimes be reduced in size to about 1 cm square.
In otherwords, only a teeny little part of the top of the window would be
displayed.
	If i'm missing something, here, someone please tell me.

		johan
	Johan van Zanten 	"Don't you threaten me with a dead fish."
(eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu)	(from the movie "Withnail and I")